Status of Women committee  Yes, that's the thing: it's a kind of a tragedy of the commons problem, where, when you and I make individual decisions in individual situations, and we think we're fine because we've agreed to what we've done, the implications of what we've done, our choices, can be part of what

Status of Women committee  I'll jump in there. The other thing we have to be conscious of is that I don't think we actually want to be keeping kids from sexually explicit material. I think there's a lot of information that's necessary for kids to know about sexual activity and sexual health, which I distin

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. Together with Professor Valerie Steeves, I co-lead a seven-year project funded by SSHRC called the eQuality project. It's focused on understanding how big data practices, especially targeted advertising, affect young people's online interactions and can set them up fo

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, I agree. I think the right to be forgotten is going to become more and more relevant the more complex data collection and profiling systems become.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't think meaningful consent is real. I don't think you can have informed consent in the environment we're living in, and we won't have it in the future, because meaningful consent is informed consent, and you can't be informed of things you can't understand. The best-intenti

Information & Ethics committee  We threw around the term “right to be forgotten” pretty easily just a minute ago; I did it, too. Just to be clear, to say what we mean.... What do we mean by a right to be forgotten? Even in the EU currently, without thinking about what's going to happen in 2018, it's not really

Information & Ethics committee  I'm a lawyer. Sure, legal actions are good. I am certainly never against opening up a panoply of remedies for citizens. However, the reality of civil actions is that most people can't afford them anyway, so who would use those mechanisms? Maybe we'll be able to use them for class

Information & Ethics committee  I wouldn't limit it to young people. This isn't about infantilizing adults or saying that people are stupid. This is a group of well-educated people in this room, and I'm sure most of us have no idea what we've agreed to in the privacy policies we've agreed to and would not have

Information & Ethics committee  I'm a big fan of consent. I just think that in some circumstances it isn't realistic, and I'm afraid this is one of them. It's interesting to have service providers agree on a model of consent, but what that means is that they're going to have to agree on what algorithms are goin

Information & Ethics committee  I agree with that.

Information & Ethics committee  It's kind of like the current provision that talks about accuracy and completeness in the principles in PIPEDA. It's because it's kind of amorphous that it becomes difficult to use it or to know when an organization is.... In some cases, no. Maybe in health care, no. Maybe in the

Information & Ethics committee  Right. In the online context and the data that's being kept by service providers, it's supposed to be accurate and relevant to the original purpose for collection. If the original purpose for collection is to use it to create aggregates for marketing, then when does it ever not

Information & Ethics committee  One of the first times that young people testified in a formal hearing, either in the House or in the Senate, was in the conversation around bullying and cyber-bullying. I think that is a really interesting model of bringing forward young people to engage and to testify. I'll pu

Information & Ethics committee  It is in 2019. We're hoping to bring young people together to talk about the Internet and what they want, and privacy will be a big part of that. If any of you would be interested in being part of that, you can let me know. However, that's an informal process. We should start

Information & Ethics committee  Under the current law, no. Then I guess the question is whether you are saying that erasure of their files is something that Canadians ought to be able to demand. If you go back to the principles—and I want to use the right terms—accuracy, completeness, and being up to date, th